a japanese landscape....

Since December 2011 I visited the accessible areas of Fukushima prefecture roughly every three months to record the daily life in the areas most affected by the triple disaster in North-eastern Japan.
After the worldwide front page media coverage mostly concerned with possible health risks for people of these parts of the world receded, I felt a personal need for a more in-depth view of the people actually most affected by the triple disaster and their daily struggles with its aftermaths.

This series of images is somehow a byproduct, usually not or just partially chosen for exhibitions and publications. The images just show a landscape with scars, leaving the viewer in uncertainty about what is shown. This feeling of uncertainty, paired with the beautiness of the japanese landscape, reflects the mood of Fukushima maybe even more effective then my classical fotojournalistic images.